Between our events and our blog, we at Camp TradeTech spend almost OCD-levels of time looking into trading regulations and it’s certainly one of the main topics you, our industry bretherin, our most concerned about. One of the big boys of the debate, and one of the ones who’s effects are being seen the soonest, is of course our good friend Dodd Frank. The Dodd-Frank Act signifies the biggest US regulatory change in several decades. According to our industry colleagues, Dodd-Frank will have a substantial influence over an estimated 8,500 investment managers, all the 10-12 US...

  The process of algorithmic trading has been debated by a wide number of experts in the financial sector in recent years, yet the debate is far from losing momentum – in fact, it’s hotting up thanks to the onset of the plethora of new regulations. Although many companies have taken advantage of its benefits, it has also come in for criticism in some quarters. One of the organisations that has spoken out against the practice is the Dutch markets regulator AFM, which has suggested that more emphasis needs to be placed on the potential risks of using the...

A look into the potential pitfalls of EMIR in the DACH region with Mark Goodmann is Head of Electronic Services – Europe at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. Mark is a man with his fingers very much on the pulse when it comes to the latest financial regulatory reforms. One of the more recent ones to make the pink papers is EMIR (European Market Infrastructure Regulation) so we at TradeTech DACH set some questions to Mr. Goodman to find out what the possible – if not intended – outcomes of EMIR may be. If EMIR comes in as proposed, will it be an overall positive change for...